Job 9:25-35 - My Life Is Speeding By

²⁵ "My days are swifter than a runner, they speed by without seeing happiness. ²⁶ They glide by like reed boats, like an eagle that swoops down on its prey. ²⁷ If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression and be cheerful,' ²⁸ I dread all my sufferings, for I know that you do not hold me blameless. ²⁹ If I am guilty, why then weary myself in vain? ³⁰ If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands clean with lye, ³¹ then you plunge me into a slimy pit and my own clothes abhor me.

³² For he is not a human being like I am, that I might answer him, that we might come together in judgment. ³³ Nor is there an arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both, ³⁴ who would take his rod away from me so that his terror would not make me afraid. ³⁵ Then would I speak and not fear him, but it is not so with me.